Use OSG Connect Tutorials

OSG Connect tutorials on Github

All of the OSG Connect tutorials are available as repositories on Github. These tutorials are tested regularly and should work as is, but if you experience any issues please contact us.

Tutorial commands

From the OSG Connect login node, the following tutorial commands are available:

$ tutorial
$ tutorial list
$ tutorial info <tutorial-name>
$ tutorial <tutorial-name>

Available tutorials

The OSG Connect login nodes have the following tutorials pre-installed. To see what is available:

$ tutorial list
Currently available tutorials:
R ...................... Estimate Pi using the R programming language
R-addlibSNA ............ Shows how to add R external libraries for the R jobs on the OSG
ScalingUp-Python ....... Scaling up compute resources - Python example to optimize a function on grid points
annex .................. None
blast-split ............ How to run BLAST on the OSG by splitting a large input file
connect-client ......... Demonstrates how to use the connect client for remote job submission
dagman-wordfreq ........ DAGMan based wordfreq example
dagman-wordfreq-stash .. DAGMan based wordfreq - data from stash
error101 ............... Use condor_q -better-analyze to analyze stuck jobs
exitcode ............... Use HTCondor's periodic_release to retry failed jobs
htcondor-transfer ...... Transfer data via HTCondor's own mechanisms
matlab-HelloWorld ...... Creating standalone MATLAB application - Hello World 
nelle-nemo ............. Running Nelle Nemo's goostats on the grid
oasis-parrot ........... Software access with OASIS and Parrot
octave ................. Matrix manipulation via the Octave programming language
osg-locations .......... Tutorial based on OSG location exercise from the User School
pegasus ................ An introduction to the Pegasus job workflow manager
photodemo .............. A complete analysis workflow using HTTP transfer
quickstart ............. How to run your first OSG job
root ................... Inspect ntuples using the ROOT analysis framework
scaling ................ Learn to steer jobs to particular resources
scaling-up-resources ... A simple multi-job demonstration
software ............... Software access tutorial
stash-cvmfs ............ Shows how to use stash-cvmfs for input data transfer
stash-http ............. Retrieve job input files from Stash via HTTP
tensorflow-matmul ...... Tensorflow math operations as a singularity container job on the OSG - matrix multiplication

Install and setup a tutorial

On the OSG Connect login node, create a directory, cd to it, and invoke the command:

$ tutorial <tutorial-name>

This command will clone the tutorial repository to your current working directory. cd to the repository directory and follow the steps described in the readme.md file. Alternatively, you can view the readme.md file at the tutorial's corresponding GitHub page.